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From: Julie Martin [mailto:jmar...@nedcc.org] Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2014 1:13 PM To: ul...@lists.ala.org<mailto:ul...@lists.ala.org> Subject: New Hope for Early Grooved Audio - IRENE Audio Preservation at NEDCC Now Available NEW HOPE FOR EARLY AUDIO: IRENE Audio Preservation now available at NEDCC! The new IRENE Audio Preservation service at the nonprofit Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC) is the culmination of a decade of research and development at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the Library of Congress. The IRENE technology uses a non-contact approach, which eliminates the possibility of damage caused by mechanical contact of a stylus on fragile media. The process creates ultra-high resolution images of the audio groove structures in either 2D or 3D, and the resulting image files are then processed through software that translates them into an audio file. NEDCC CURRENTLY WORKS WITH THE FOLLOWING FORMATS: Wax cylinders, lacquer discs ("acetate" discs), aluminum transcription discs, shellac discs, tin foils, and other rare formats (e.g., Dictabelt, Voice-O-Graph, etc.), and can handle rare, fragile, or damaged media. LEARN MORE: About NEDCC IRENE: https://www.nedcc.org/audio-preservation/about About the History of the of the IRENE IMLS Grant Project at NEDCC: https://www.nedcc.org/audio-preservation/history QUESTIONS about NEDCC's IRENE Audio Preservation Service? Contact: Mason Vander Lugt, ml...@nedcc.org<mailto:ml...@nedcc.org><mailto:ml...@nedcc.org> **************************************************************** NORTHEAST DOCUMENT CONSERVATION CENTER Andover, MA - nedcc.org JOIN THE NEDCC E-List for Updates on new IRENE projects and other preservation news you can use: https://www.nedcc.org/contact/sign-up-for-news
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